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Winged men carry Lieutenant Bradley to a city paved with human skulls, and he fights his way out.
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Out of Time's Abyssの概要
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- 読書時間
- 約2 h 15 min1 h 50 min fast, 2 h 45 min slow
- 所要時間
- 32,700語5 chapters
- ページ数
- 99ページ150 in large print
- ライブラリ内の難易度
- 標準 longer sentences, everyday words
- 初版刊行年
- 1918by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Out of Time's Abyss in short
Out of Time's Abyss is the story of one resourceful man cut off in a prehistoric world. It begins with a march along the cliffs of Caprona, where a pale winged visitor stalks a small band of soldiers. It moves on to Bradley's capture, the city of skulls, the cruel Wieroos and the idea of evolution inside every creature of the island.
What Out of Time's Abyss is about
What would you do if a pale, white-robed figure with wings seized you from your sleeping camp and carried you off into the night sky? That is the fate of Lieutenant John Bradley in Out of Time's Abyss. The tale is set on Caprona, a hidden island in the South Pacific, sealed inside a ring of towering cliffs, where beasts long extinct still live.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, the American creator of Tarzan, wrote this book as the closing part of a trilogy about Caprona. You get a fast, eerie adventure, a grim city built from skulls, and a strange idea of how a single egg might climb the whole ladder of life.
対象読者. You will love this book if you enjoy lost-world adventure, dinosaurs, daring escapes, dark cities, dry-humored heroes, and speculative ideas about evolution told at a gallop.
The story in 9 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Five men march north through a land of monsters
The story begins in September 1916. Lieutenant John Bradley leaves Fort Dinosaur with four companions, Sinclair, Brady, James and Tippet. They must follow the base of the barrier cliffs and find a spot where the wall can be climbed.
The jungle is beautiful and deadly. Tall grass, bright flowers and giant tree ferns hide fierce creatures at every step. The men treat danger like weather, and they joke about Chicago traffic as they walk. Bradley has one fixed habit, a fear of wasting ammunition, and he repeats it in every crisis like a drumbeat.
The first great scene shows the group at its best. A cave bear charges Tippet, who trips on roots and loses his rifle. Bradley shoots and then runs, drawing the bear away so Tippet can get up. Tippet, whom they all thought overcautious, runs back toward the beast, firing as he goes, and finishes it just as it reaches Bradley. Bradley thanks him and adds that it was a waste of ammunition.
Courage turns up in people who do not look like heroes.
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A white winged ghost haunts the camp
The party meets the first Caspakian tribes along the way.
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The marked men die and Bradley vanishes
Tippet is right that something is coming for him, though not in the way he expects.
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Bradley is carried to the City of Skulls
The tale now follows Bradley alone.
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A fight in a roof room and a girl behind a yellow door
After his meal, Wieroos crowd around Bradley in the alley and pull at his clothes and pistol.
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In the pit Bradley learns how life climbs from egg to man
The pit is dark, and a heap of rags in the corner starts to move.
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A secret panel and a river of the dead
An-Tak keeps repeating that there is a way out.
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The temple and the murderer who speaks for god
Hidden under a pile of hides in a blue room, Bradley and the girl are betrayed by one heavy army shoe that sticks out.
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What the story says and how it is told
Beneath the chase lies a portrait of a society that has gone wrong.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- John Bradley An English lieutenant, calm and sharp-witted, who leads a search for a way out of Caprona and hates to waste ammunition.
- Tippet A cautious Englishman in Bradley's party who surprises everyone with his courage, then becomes sure that a flying ghost has marked him.
- Brady A talkative former Chicago traffic policeman who is brave in a fight but terrified by the winged apparition.
- Sinclair A dry-witted former cowhand and good shot who stays level-headed in most trouble.
- Fosh-bal-soj A Wieroo who captures Bradley and claims him as his prisoner for the leader of the Wieroos.
- The Galu girl A captive with white skin and golden ornaments who fears the Wieroos and longs to return to her own people.
- An-Tak A starving Galu prisoner, half mad from confinement, who knows how life climbs from egg to man.
- Him Who Speaks for Luata The blue-robed chief of the Wieroos, who rules by fear and keeps two great swords at his side.
How it ends (spoiler)
Bradley and the girl, named Co-Tan, force two Wieroos to fly them to the mainland. There he finds von Schoenvorts and his Germans abusing his men. With Co-Tan's arrow and a mutiny among the Germans, he wins. They search for Tyler and Miss La Rue, find Co-Tan's people, and meet Tom Billings and Ajor. They sail away in the U-33, reach the yacht Toreador, and arrive home in Southern California as three newly married couples.
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『Out of Time's Abyss』についての質問
What is Out of Time's Abyss about?
It follows Lieutenant Bradley on the lost island of Caprona. A winged creature stalks his men, then carries him to the Wieroo city of Oo-oh, where he meets a captive girl and a starving prisoner and seeks a way out.
Do I need to read the other Caprona books first?
No. The story recaps what you need, including Fort Dinosaur, the captured U-33 and the island's strange peoples. It is the third in the trilogy, but its action and mystery are clear on their own.
Who are the Wieroos?
They are winged, pale, hairless beings who live on the island of Oo-oh in a city built of skulls. They wear white robes marked by color according to how many murders they have done, and they answer to Him Who Speaks for Luata.
What does cos-ata-lu mean?
It means no-egg-man, a person born directly rather than hatched from an egg in Caspak's warm pools. Everyone in Caspak hopes to reach this final stage of development, and the Wieroos prize the secret of it.
Is Out of Time's Abyss easy to read?
Yes, in its approachable style. It has clear action, vivid monsters and a lively sense of humor, carrying the plot from the first march through escape and reunion to Southern California.
この版を引用します
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Out of Time's Abyss. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/out-of-time-s-abyss.
Burroughs, E. R. (2026). Out of time's abyss. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/out-of-time-s-abyss (Original work published 1918)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Out of Time's Abyss. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/out-of-time-s-abyss.
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note = {First published 1918}
}
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